Alibaba Cloud Data Lake Formation Description
A data lake is a central repository for big data and AI computing. It allows you to store both structured and unstructured data at any size. Data Lake Formation (DLF), is a key component in the cloud-native database lake framework. DLF is a simple way to create a cloud-native database lake. It integrates seamlessly with a variety compute engines. You can manage metadata in data lakes in an centralized manner and control enterprise class permissions. It can systematically collect structured, semi-structured and unstructured data, and supports massive data storage. This architecture separates storage and computing. This allows you to plan resources on demand and at low costs. This increases data processing efficiency to meet rapidly changing business needs. DLF can automatically detect and collect metadata from multiple engines. It can also manage the metadata in a central manner to resolve data silo problems.